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Re:Five Buck Fatigue by avian on Friday July 31, 2020 @03:18AM (#24006453)
Flattr sounded good on paper, but had a lot of practical problems. This comment sums it up pretty well why basically only Flattr was making money with Flattr:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558406

If there was one thing I was expecting to come out of the cryptocurrency craze, it was a better Flattr. Yet even that failed to materialize.

Re:Five Buck Fatigue by raisedbyninjas on Friday July 31, 2020 @10:17AM (#24008774)
No blockchain currently has the scale for this. FWIW, Visa couldn't handle this either. Youtube alone serves over 10,000 videos per second to just mobile clients. Add in podcasts, text content, music, games, etc. and it's a monumental task.
Re:Five Buck Fatigue by joncrane on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:43PM (#24010477)
You don't have to be as big as youtube. The only infrastructure you need is ingestion points for all the feeds, and then reporting mechanisms. The ingestion can just go into an autoscaling group. At that point your cloud costs track almost directly with your revenue, so a big AWS bill is a good sign.